Institutional Change

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This cluster focuses on institutional change in education, welfare and health systems. It explores how (in) formal institutions are governed, transformed, created, and destroyed. Their members utilise both empirical data and conceptual analysis from diverse contexts to examine and evaluate the institutions that regulate concepts, physical entities, identities, and sectors within various socio-political frameworks. The research cluster provides a distinct gateway to resources and opportunities, fostering collaboration on research which charts the social, political, economic and environmental evolution of (in)formal institutions across the world by harnessing the strengths of regional and globally comparative perspectives.

Members

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Aikedan Ainiwaer

DPhil in Area Studies (China)

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Professor Maryam Alemzadeh

Associate Professor in the History and Politics of Iran

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Dr Sari R. Alfi-Nissan

Academic Visitor

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Professor Mihail Chiru

Associate Professor in Comparative Central and Eastern European Politics

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Professor David Doyle

Professor of Politics

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Professor Roger Goodman

Nissan Professorship of Modern Japanese Studies

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Yasser Kureshi

Research Associate

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Dr Jody LaPorte

Senior Lecturer in Research Methods

rebekah lee

Professor Rebekah Lee

Associate Professor in African Studies

jonathan lusthaus

Dr Jonathan Lusthaus

Director of The Human Cybercriminal Project & an Associate Professor in Global Sociology

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Professor Rachel Murphy

Professor of Chinese Development and Society

Michael Odijie

Dr Michael E Odijie

Associate Professor in African History; Course Director of the MSc in African Studies

michael rochlitz

Professor Michael Rochlitz

Associate Professor in the Economies of Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia; Director of Russian and East European Studies

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Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea

Head of the School of Global and Area Studies and Professor of the Political Economy of Development

patricija smolnikar

Patricija Romina Smolnikar

DPhil in Area Studies (Russian and East European Studies)

Zhe Wang

Zhe Wang

Departmental Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Studies

hugh whittaker

Professor D. Hugh Whittaker

Professor in the Economy and Business of Japan; Course Director of the MSc and MPhil in Japanese Studies

zbigniew wojnowski

Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski

Associate Professor

guanlin wu

Guanlin Wu

DPhil in Area Studies (China)

Haiyun （Helena ）Zhao

DPhil in Area Studies (China)

wenqi zhao

Wenqi Zhao

DPhil in Area Studies (China)

Fangmiao Zou

Dr Fangmiao Zou

OSGA Research Associate (Nissan Institute)